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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 6552148, member: 101855"]Both are brown.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a dealer, I saw some better date coins, like a Mint State sharpness 1869 cent that had been dipped bright red. PCGS called it “brown” for reasons that I did not understand.</p><p><br /></p><p>The copper color thing is often confusing for me. My preference is heavily toward Red & Brown small cents and Brown Unc. large cents. I generally shun Red copper because it has turned on me too many times.</p><p><br /></p><p>When a copper coin has been dipped to make it Red, my experience has been that it will tone within a year or so. That’s why I tell collectors, NEVER buy an old Red copper coin in a new slab.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 6552148, member: 101855"]Both are brown. When I was a dealer, I saw some better date coins, like a Mint State sharpness 1869 cent that had been dipped bright red. PCGS called it “brown” for reasons that I did not understand. The copper color thing is often confusing for me. My preference is heavily toward Red & Brown small cents and Brown Unc. large cents. I generally shun Red copper because it has turned on me too many times. When a copper coin has been dipped to make it Red, my experience has been that it will tone within a year or so. That’s why I tell collectors, NEVER buy an old Red copper coin in a new slab.[/QUOTE]
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